Saturday, October 23, 2010

Tim Nice And Northern

This video is truly brilliant. Tim Farron is the LibDem MP who ousted Tim Collins in 2005, and you can see why. He's now standing to be the president of the Liberal Democrats against Susan Kramer. If I was her, I'd be worried. Forget some of the anti Thatcher rhetoric (I usually try to) in the video, just concentrate on the message he is putting over to his electorate - LibDem members up and down the country. And from what I can see he did the whole thing in a single take. Word perfect. Fluent. Articulate. And a bit northern.

Norfolk Blogger is not a fan of the coalition. At all. He hadn't been intending to cast a vote in the LibDem presidential election. He will now. For Tim Farron. If he can make this video truly viral, Farron may well do much better than many were predicting.

I'm glad to aid and abet him. Not because I agree with all of what he says. But I can recognise a brilliant campaign video when I see one.

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I think there was a cut at 1.06-1.08 (the video cuts to ducks, and there's a slight jar in the audio). There's another cut in the video at 2.32-33: the video cuts to the marina, and when it comes back to him he's noticeably further down the path than he was (look at the balcony).

I agree - a very powerful appeal. I counted three cuts (oh, that word again) during his talk so it likely wasn't done in one take. Even more impressive, given the polished nature of the final product, is that some of the artifacts in the video indicate it was taken with a mobile phone.

I felt proud to be a Liberal Democrat too, for about a second. The trouble is I'm a Conservative who's proud of Margaret Thatcher and what she achieved in turning Britain around from a basket case into a high growth economy.

All these jimmies want to spend more money. Yet all they do is ensure we earn less and less.

Thatcher spent more than any of them, because she understood that wealth creation comes before the spending of the money.

Try again Farrell. And see if you can understand why living standards in Britain rose after the 1980s that you remember so well, or do you?

***I'm a Conservative who's proud of Margaret Thatcher and what she achieved in turning Britain around from a basket case into a high growth economy..."

...which manufactured nothing. Britain became a high growth economy in the same sense that people's houses became worth three times what they paid for them. Until easy credit disappeared and it became clear that all the high growth was built on sand.

There were two cutaways in the piece, allowing for skillful editing. Somebody got together a decent crew - a good camera man, a good sound man and a good director, and whoever edited it, did it with a light touch, and made sure it came in at 3 minutes.

When the rest of the politicals are pumping out stuff that is longer - far too long, and insist on being photographed with fluffy kittens and a raft of token worthies, and then get it edited by someone in his bedroom with a hooky version of something they got free off the internet, it stands to reason that this guy is going to look like the Messiah.